(The Center Square) — As the Red River Expressway project breaks ground this year, citizens of Shreveport bring noise concerns and speed limit issues to the council.
“I don’t know how a road coming through my neighborhood in Esplanade and between Twelve Oaks is going to improve my quality of life,” Dave Hackney confessed after sharing that the new route project from Bossier City to Caddo aims to do just that.
Hackney is a retired petroleum engineer concerned with the lack of data presented to the public for the project led by Tim James, Inc. While addressing the Shreveport City Council, he requested some traffic data attesting to whether the new road is truly needed…